2025: A Breath of Fresh Air

  Time for a new mission statement. My goal for 2025 was to lose 100 pounds by 12-31-25 but I've failed miserably. At some point I need to pick myself up and try. A realistic goal at this point is 50 pounds by 12-31-25, so that is where I will start. When will I start ? I don't know .. do I need a "starting point" ? I don't. Every day that I don't "start" just adds to my misery. I plan to just take each day as it comes and do what I can to move closer to where I want to be. Life has changed and I haven't been able to adapt just yet. I called this blog "Gloomy Thursday" because it's a gray rainy day. I've only seen light showers but I'm missing the sun we had the past couple of days ! Yesterday was rock & roll bingo and I got to debut my shorter hair (I cut it myself) and a new top. I think the hair was a hit and I was pleased with the top despite my weight. We didn't have any wins but Rich missed out on 2 wins becaus...

  Time for a new mission statement. My goal for 2025 was to lose 100 pounds by 12-31-25 but I've failed miserably. At some point I need to pick myself up and try. A realistic goal at this point is 50 pounds by 12-31-25, so that is where I will start. When will I start ? I don't know .. do I need a "starting point" ? I don't. Every day that I don't "start" just adds to my misery. I plan to just take each day as it comes and do what I can to move closer to where I want to be. Life has changed and I haven't been able to adapt just yet. Time to catch up, yet again ! It's Tuesday May 27th ! Sunday was mostly sitting on the couch watching YouTube, playing the slots or scrolling my phone but I did get outside for a little bit. I had gone out to sweep off the back stoop and I was checking out my rhododendron, which is starting to bloom. I noticed the dead remnants of last years blooms all over the place and I also had some dead branches on the lilacs...

  Time for a new mission statement. My goal for 2025 was to lose 100 pounds by 12-31-25 but I've failed miserably. At some point I need to pick myself up and try. A realistic goal at this point is 50 pounds by 12-31-25, so that is where I will start. When will I start ? I don't know .. do I need a "starting point" ? I don't. Every day that I don't "start" just adds to my misery. I plan to just take each day as it comes and do what I can to move closer to where I want to be. Life has changed and I haven't been able to adapt just yet. It's Saturday May 24 and today marks exactly one year since my job ended. Honestly, the time has flown ! I think I'm over it and ready to embrace the rest of my life, however long that may be. Much of what I have today is thanks to the great job I had, but it's hard not to be a bit bitter about the way it ended. I'd have been happy to get 3 more years in but I guess that was not my destiny ! Yesterday ...

  Time for a new mission statement. My goal for 2025 was to lose 100 pounds by 12-31-25 but I've failed miserably. At some point I need to pick myself up and try. A realistic goal at this point is 50 pounds by 12-31-25, so that is where I will start. When will I start ? I don't know .. do I need a "starting point" ? I don't. Every day that I don't "start" just adds to my misery. I plan to just take each day as it comes and do what I can to move closer to where I want to be. Life has changed and I haven't been able to adapt just yet. Well, another week has started and though I haven't been on the treadmill, I haven't exactly sat on my butt for the past 2 days. Yesterday I mowed the lawn again. When I did it Thursday I had the mower on the highest setting since the grass was so long. I wanted to mow it again to get it shorter. That worked really well because the grass was drier. I did have to stop a couple times to clean the chute but a cou...

  Time for a new mission statement. My goal for 2025 was to lose 100 pounds by 12-31-25 but I've failed miserably. At some point I need to pick myself up and try. A realistic goal at this point is 50 pounds by 12-31-25, so that is where I will start. When will I start ? I don't know .. do I need a "starting point" ? I don't. Every day that I don't "start" just adds to my misery. I plan to just take each day as it comes and do what I can to move closer to where I want to be. Life has changed and I haven't been able to adapt just yet. Well, here I am again after 5 days of zero progress. So, let's catch up yet again. I last wrote on Thursday 5-1 and that was a successful day, in that I got on the treadmill. Friday I went to the Mets game with Rich & Barb. It was chilly (50 degrees) and I was glad I brought my blanket ! We won the game and there were fireworks afterward, so we had a great time. I went easy on food. We all had pierogies and I ...

  Time for a new mission statement. My goal for 2025 was to lose 100 pounds by 12-31-25 but I've failed miserably. At some point I need to pick myself up and try. A realistic goal at this point is 50 pounds by 12-31-25, so that is where I will start. When will I start ? I don't know .. do I need a "starting point" ? I don't. Every day that I don't "start" just adds to my misery. I plan to just take each day as it comes and do what I can to move closer to where I want to be. Life has changed and I haven't been able to adapt just yet. First, let's catch up ! The severe weather predicted for Tuesday didn't really impact me. We had a few minutes of rain and a bit of wind and that was that ! The worst of it was South and East of me. Wednesday was rock & roll bingo so the day was spent doing my usual YouTube, online slots and getting ready to go out. It was just Kim, Joe & I as Rich and Barb had an unexpected emergency. A tree fell on t...